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<h1>If a document appears garbled in CotEditor on Mac</h1>

<p>Characters can be misinterpreted mostly if CotEditor fails to detect the documents’s text encoding correctly.</p>

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	<li><p>The document may appear correctly if you open it using a different text encoding.</p>
	<p>→ <a href="howto_interpret_encoding.html">Open a document with a specified encoding</a></p></li>
	
	<li><p>Adjusting the priority of encoding detection may help reduce garbled text.</p>
	<p>→ <a href="howto_customize_encoding_order.html">Change priorities of text encodings</a></p></li>
	
	<li><p>If you select “Refer to encoding declaration in document” in Format settings, in-document encoding declarations, such as “<code>encoding=</code>” or “<code>@charset</code>” take priority when CotEditor detects the text encoding.</p>
	<p>→ <a href="about_autodetect_charset.html">Use encoding declarations for encoding detection</a></p></li>
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<p>If a document can’t be interpreted as plain text, such as binary data, CotEditor can’t read the content text. Open the document in an app that supports its file type.</p>


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<h2>See also</h2>
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	<li><a href="howto_interpret_encoding.html">Open a document with a specified encoding in CotEditor on Mac</a></li>
	<li><a href="howto_customize_encoding_order.html">Change priorities of text encodings in CotEditor on Mac</a></li>
	<li><a href="about_autodetect_charset.html">Use encoding declarations for encoding detection in CotEditor on Mac</a></li>
	<li><a href="about_shiftjis.html">Use four kinds of Shift JIS properly in CotEditor on Mac</a></li>
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